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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

Anglo-Zulu War 1879-01-11 - 1879-07-04

War of the Pacific 1879-02-14 - 1884-04-04

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

Assassination of Alexander II of Russia 1881-03-13

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06

1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1883-08-26 - 1883-08-27

Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04

Berlin Conference 1884-11-15 - 1885-02-26

Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

Founding of the Indian National Congress 1885-12-28 - 1885-12-31

Haymarket affair 1886-05-04

Lei Áurea 1888-05-13

Meiji Constitution 1889-02-11

Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil) 1889-11-15

Wounded Knee Massacre 1890-12-29

Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom 1893-01-17

Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893-09-19

First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17

Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12

First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23

First Guangzhou Uprising 1895-10-26

Progressive era 1896 - 1916

Battle of Adwa 1896-03-01

1896 Summer Olympics 1896-04-06 - 1896-04-15

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896-05-18

Sinking of the USS Maine 1898-02-15

Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13

Battle of Manila Bay 1898-05-01 - 1898-05-01

Bombardment of San Juan 1898-05-12 - 1898-05-12

Battle of Guantánamo Bay 1898-06-06 - 1898-06-14

Capture of Guam 1898-06-20 - 1898-06-21

Battle of Las Guasimas 1898-06-24 - 1898-06-24

Battle of San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

Battle of El Caney 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03

Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17

Puerto Rico campaign 1898-07-25 - 1898-08-13

Battle of Manila (1898) 1898-08-13 - 1898-08-13

Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22

Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05

Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02

Battle of Quingua 1899-04-23 - 1899-04-23

Hague Convention of 1899 1899-07-29

Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31

Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17

Siege of Kimberley 1899-10-14 - 1900-02-15

Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07

Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28

Battle of Tirad Pass 1899-12-02 - 1899-12-02

Battle of Magersfontein 1899-12-11 - 1899-12-11

Second Battle of Colenso 1899-12-15 - 1899-12-15

Battle of Spion Kop 1900-01-23 - 1900-01-24

Battle of Paardeberg 1900-02-18 - 1900-02-27

Seymour Expedition 1900-06-10 - 1900-06-26

Battle of Diamond Hill 1900-06-11 - 1900-06-12

Battle of the Taku Forts (1900) 1900-06-16 - 1900-06-17

Siege of the International Legations 1900-06-20 - 1900-08-14

Battle of Tientsin 1900-07-13 - 1900-07-14

Battle of Peking (1900) 1900-08-14 - 1900-08-15

Battle of Bergendal 1900-08-21 - 1900-08-27

Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08

Federation of Australia 1901-01-01

Balangiga massacre 1901-09-28 - 1901-09-28

First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17

Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05

Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09

Battle of the Yalu River 1904-04-30 - 1904-05-01

Battle of Nanshan 1904-05-24 - 1904-05-26

Battle of Te-li-ssu 1904-06-14 - 1904-06-15

Battle of Tashihchiao 1904-07-24 - 1904-07-25

Siege of Port Arthur 1904-08-01 - 1905-01-02

Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904-08-10 - 1904-08-10

Battle off Ulsan 1904-08-14 - 1904-08-14

Battle of Liaoyang 1904-08-25 - 1904-09-05

Battle of Shaho 1904-10-05 - 1904-10-17

Einstein's annus mirabilis papers 1905

Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22

Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16

Battle of Sandepu 1905-01-25 - 1905-01-29

Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10

Battle of Tsushima 1905-05-27 - 1905-05-28

Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05

Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

1906 San Francisco earthquake 1906-04-18

Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01

Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24

Ford Model T 1908-10-01

South Africa Act 1909 1910-05-31

Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01

Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27

Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01

Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12

Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01

Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15

First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30

Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24

Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23

Battle of Kumanovo 1912-10-23 - 1912-10-24

Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23

Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02

Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05

Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26

Battle of Monastir 1912-11-16 - 1912-11-19

First Battle of Çatalca 1912-11-17 - 1912-11-18

Battle of Elli 1912-12-16 - 1912-12-16

Battle of Bizani 1913-03-04 - 1913-03-06

Second Balkan War 1913-06-29 - 1913-08-10

Battle of Bregalnica 1913-06-30 - 1913-07-09

Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas 1913-07-02 - 1913-07-04

Battle of Kresna Gorge 1913-07-21 - 1913-07-31

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28

July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06

Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24

World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11

East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25

Battle of Liège 1914-08-05 - 1914-08-16

Battle of Lorraine 1914-08-14 - 1914-09-07

Opening of the Panama Canal 1914-08-15

Battle of Gumbinnen 1914-08-20 - 1914-08-20

Battle of Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of the Ardennes 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11

Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30

Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26

Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) 1914-08-28 - 1914-08-28

Battle of Guise 1914-08-29 - 1914-08-30

First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12

First Battle of the Masurian Lakes 1914-09-07 - 1914-09-14

First Battle of the Aisne 1914-09-13 - 1914-09-28

Siege of Przemyśl 1914-09-16 - 1915-03-22

Siege of Antwerp (1914) 1914-09-28 - 1914-10-10

Battle of the Yser 1914-10-16 - 1914-10-31

First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22

Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30

Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05

Battle of Łódź (1914) 1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06

Battle of Sarikamish 1914-12-22 - 1915-01-17

Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) 1915-01-24 - 1915-01-24

Gallipoli campaign 1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09

Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915-03-10 - 1915-03-13

Second Battle of Ypres 1915-04-22 - 1915-05-25

Armenian genocide 1915-04-24 - 1917

Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26

Landing at Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03

Gorlice–Tarnów offensive 1915-05-02 - 1915-06-22

First Battle of the Isonzo 1915-06-23 - 1915-07-07

Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21

Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15

Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04

Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06

Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30

Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) 1915-11-22 - 1915-11-25

General relativity 1915-11-25

Siege of Kut 1915-12-07 - 1916-04-29

National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14

Erzurum offensive 1916-01-10 - 1916-02-16

Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18

Lake Naroch offensive 1916-03-18 - 1916-04-14

Easter Rising 1916-04-24 - 1916-04-29

Battle of Asiago 1916-05-15 - 1916-06-10

Sykes–Picot Agreement 1916-05-16

Battle of Jutland 1916-05-31 - 1916-06-01

Brusilov Offensive 1916-06-04 - 1916-09-20

Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25

Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18

Battle of Erzincan 1916-07-02 - 1916-07-25

Battle of Romani 1916-08-03 - 1916-08-05

Battle of Gorizia (1916) 1916-08-06 - 1916-08-17

Battle of Bucharest 1916-11-25 - 1916-12-03

Assassination of Grigori Rasputin 1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16

February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16

First Battle of Gaza 1917-03-26 - 1917-03-26

Battle of Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16

Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917-04-09 - 1917-04-12

Nivelle offensive 1917-04-16 - 1917-05-09

Battle of Messines (1917) 1917-06-07 - 1917-06-14

Kerensky offensive 1917-07-01 - 1917-07-19

Battle of Aqaba 1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06

Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10

Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917-08-18 - 1917-09-12

Riga offensive (1917) 1917-09-01 - 1917-09-03

Kornilov affair 1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13

Battle of Caporetto 1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19

Battle of Beersheba (1917) 1917-10-31 - 1917-10-31

Third Battle of Gaza 1917-11-01 - 1917-11-02

Balfour Declaration 1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02

October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08

Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16

Battle of Jerusalem (1917) 1917-11-17 - 1917-12-30

Battle of Cambrai (1917) 1917-11-20 - 1917-12-07

Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19

Representation of the People Act 1918 1918-02-06

Ice March 1918-02-22 - 1918-05-13

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03

Spanish flu 1918-03-04 - 1920-04-30

Operation Michael 1918-03-21 - 1918-04-05

Battle of the Lys (1918) 1918-04-09 - 1918-04-29

Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion 1918-05-14 - 1918-09-10

Third Battle of the Aisne 1918-05-27 - 1918-06-06

Battle of Cantigny 1918-05-28 - 1918-05-28

Battle of Belleau Wood 1918-06-01 - 1918-06-26

Second Battle of the Piave River 1918-06-15 - 1918-06-23

Battle of Tsaritsyn 1918-07-01 - 1920-01-01

Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-08-06

Execution of the Romanov family 1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17

Battle of Amiens (1918) 1918-08-08 - 1918-08-12

Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-09-12 - 1918-09-15

Vardar offensive 1918-09-15 - 1918-09-29

Battle of Megiddo (1918) 1918-09-19 - 1918-09-25

Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11

Battle of the St Quentin Canal 1918-09-29 - 1918-10-02

Battle of Sharqat 1918-10-23 - 1918-10-30

Battle of Vittorio Veneto 1918-10-24 - 1918-11-03

German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11

Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18

Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11

Biennio Rosso 1919 - 1920

Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11

Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18

March 1st Movement 1919-03-01

Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13

Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29

May Fourth Movement 1919-05-04

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11

Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09

Turkish War of Independence 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11

Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28

Battle of Petrograd 1919-09-28 - 1919-11-14

Orel–Kursk operation 1919-10-11 - 1919-11-18

Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929

Founding of the League of Nations 1920-01-10

Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

Kiev offensive (1920) 1920-04-24 - 1920-06-13

Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920-08-18

Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19

Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12

Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17

First Battle of İnönü 1921-01-06 - 1921-01-11

Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18

Second Battle of İnönü 1921-03-26 - 1921-03-31

Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir 1921-07-10 - 1921-07-24

Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13

Washington Naval Conference 1921-11-12 - 1922-02-06

Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921-12-06

Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24

Battle of Dumlupınar 1922-08-26 - 1922-08-30

Burning of Smyrna 1922-09-13 - 1922-09-22

March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29

Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30

People

Mary of Teck age 11

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu born 1923-04-05

Aleksandr Vasilevsky born 1895-09-18

Aleksey Brusilov age 24

George II of Greece born 1890-07-19

Hjalmar Schacht age 1

Rodion Malinovsky born 1898-11-23

Lázaro Cárdenas born 1895-05-21

Makarios III born 1913-08-13

Gulzarilal Nanda born 1898-07-04

Moshe Sharett born 1894-10-16

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan born 1918-05-06

Pyotr Wrangel born 1878-08-27

Alexei Rykov born 1881-02-25

P. W. Botha born 1916-01-12

Nikolai Yezhov born 1896-04-08

Lazar Kaganovich born 1893-11-22

Jiang Qing born 1914-03-05

Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 13

Wilhelm Frick age 1

Semyon Timoshenko born 1895-02-18

Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15

Paul-Henri Spaak born 1899-01-25

Zail Singh born 1916-05-05

Amintore Fanfani born 1908-02-06

Willem Drees born 1886-07-05

Jozef Tiso born 1887-10-13

Prajadhipok born 1893-11-08

Lavr Kornilov age 7

Nikolai Bulganin born 1895-06-11

João Goulart born 1919-03-01

Jean Monnet born 1888-11-09

Paul Kruger age 52

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 30

Soong Mei-ling born 1898-03-04

John Foster Dulles born 1888-02-25

Ferhat Abbas born 1899-08-24

Shankar Dayal Sharma born 1918-08-19

Chaim Herzog born 1918-09-17

Giuseppe Saragat born 1898-09-19

Mohammed V of Morocco born 1909-08-10

Prem Tinsulanonda born 1920-08-26

Manuel L. Quezon born 1878-08-19

Lin Biao born 1907-12-05

Fedor von Bock born 1880-12-03

Paul of Greece born 1901-12-14

Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14

Bruno Kreisky born 1911-01-22

Seretse Khama born 1921-07-01

Risto Ryti born 1889-02-03

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy born 1913-05-19

Giovanni Gronchi born 1887-09-10

Agatha Barbara born 1923-03-11

Nnamdi Azikiwe born 1904-11-16

Iskandar Ali Mirza born 1899-11-13

Bolesław Bierut born 1892-04-18

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini born 1895-01-01

Baldur von Schirach born 1907-05-09

Dean Acheson born 1893-04-11

Andreas Papandreou born 1919-02-05

Douglas Hyde age 18

Walter Model born 1891-01-24

Shigeru Yoshida born 1878-09-22

Kakuei Tanaka born 1918-05-04

Walther von Brauchitsch born 1881-10-04

René Cassin born 1887-02-05

Edward Smith age 28

Victoria, Princess Royal age 37

Maud of Wales age 8

Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27

Kurt Schuschnigg born 1897-12-14

Konstantinos Karamanlis born 1907-03-21

Inder Kumar Gujral born 1919-12-04

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia born 1895-11-15

Maria Nikolaevna of Russia born 1899-06-26

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 30

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 1

Albert Kesselring born 1885-11-30

Wilhelm Marx age 15

Hans Luther born 1879-03-10

Édouard Herriot age 5

Alexander of Greece born 1893-08-01

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 67

Schuyler Colfax age 55

Sveinn Björnsson born 1881-02-27

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr born 1914-07-01

Talal I of Jordan born 1909-02-26

Kiro Gligorov born 1917-05-03

Plaek Phibunsongkhram born 1897-07-14

Franz Halder born 1884-06-30

Nobusuke Kishi born 1896-11-13

Kiichi Miyazawa born 1919-10-08

Tōgō Heihachirō age 30

Konstantin von Neurath age 5

Zhu De born 1886-12-01

Mohammed Daoud Khan born 1909-07-18

John Diefenbaker born 1895-09-18

Ioannis Metaxas age 7

Modibo Keïta born 1915-06-04

Diosdado Macapagal born 1910-09-28

Ramon Magsaysay born 1907-08-31

Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia born 1897-06-10

Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia born 1904-08-12

Clara Barton age 56

Heinrich Brüning born 1885-11-26

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk born 1887-08-22

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 16

Genrikh Yagoda born 1891-11-07

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria age 19

Princess Alice of Battenberg born 1885-02-25

Walther Funk born 1890-08-18

Fritz Sauckel born 1894-10-27

George Shultz born 1920-12-13

Harold Holt born 1908-08-05

Emilio Colombo born 1920-04-11

Plutarco Elías Calles age 8 months

José López Portillo born 1920-06-16

Milovan Đilas born 1911-06-12

Carol II of Romania born 1893-10-15

Archibald Wavell born 1883-05-05

Erich von Falkenhayn age 16

Fumimaro Konoe born 1891-10-12

Vasily Blyukher born 1889-12-01

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco born 1897-09-20

Alain Poher born 1909-04-17

August von Mackensen age 28

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 10

Marie of Romania age 2

Georgios Papadopoulos born 1919-05-05

Árpád Göncz born 1922-02-10

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej born 1901-11-08

Nicolae Iorga age 7

Rómulo Gallegos born 1884-08-02

Maurice Gamelin age 5

Hayato Ikeda born 1899-12-03

Kirill Meretskov born 1897-06-07

Italo Balbo born 1896-06-06

Edward Rydz-Śmigły born 1886-03-11

Nicholas I of Montenegro age 36

Lew Wallace age 51

Oswald Mosley born 1896-11-16

Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20

Robert Menzies born 1894-12-20

Lauri Kristian Relander born 1883-05-31

Abdul Salam Arif born 1921-01-01

Abd al-Karim Qasim born 1914-11-21

Isaac Navon born 1921-04-09

Luis Echeverría born 1922-01-17

Ne Win born 1911-05-24

Francisco Largo Caballero age 8

C. Rajagopalachari born 1878-12-10

Günther von Kluge born 1882-10-30

Yakov Sverdlov born 1885-06-03

Djemal Pasha age 6

Ichirō Hatoyama born 1883-01-01

Takeo Fukuda born 1905-01-14

Hendrik Verwoerd born 1901-09-08

João Figueiredo born 1918-01-15

Allen Dulles born 1893-04-07

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark born 1882-02-02

Andrey Vyshinsky born 1883-12-10

Zita of Bourbon-Parma born 1892-05-09

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom age 35

Princess Märtha of Sweden born 1901-03-28

Alice Paul born 1885-01-11

Fritz Todt born 1891-09-04

Joseph Kasa-Vubu born 1910-01-01

Abdul Rahman Arif born 1916-04-14

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi born 1884-11-24

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg born 1921-01-05

Manuel Roxas born 1892-01-01

Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio born 1902-09-06

Nikolai Vatutin born 1901-12-16

Nikolai Yudenich age 15

Ernesto Geisel born 1907-08-03

Ludwig III of Bavaria age 33

Ingrid of Sweden born 1910-03-28

Bartolomé Mitre age 56

Manuel Ávila Camacho born 1897-04-24

Lon Nol born 1913-11-13

Mohammad Hatta born 1902-08-12

Mariano Rumor born 1915-06-16

Ghulam Ishaq Khan born 1915-01-20

Marcelo Caetano born 1906-08-17

Wang Jingwei born 1883-05-04

Aden Abdullah Osman Daar born 1908-12-09

Choi Kyu-hah born 1919-07-16

Inukai Tsuyoshi age 23

Zenkō Suzuki born 1911-01-11

Paul Reynaud born 1878-10-15

Jules Ferry age 46

Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 26

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 13

Maria Christina of Austria age 19

Charlotte of Belgium age 38

Allan Octavian Hume age 49

Lê Duẩn born 1907-04-07

Li Xiannian born 1909-06-23

George Wallace born 1919-08-25

John Curtin born 1885-01-08

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